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Daily Learning Target(s): By the end of class, students will be able to...

  • analyze text as evidenced by producing a rhetorical precis, one pager or poem to demonstrate understanding.

Due Today:

  • None

HOMEWORK:
  • Due Block Day Dec 7 and 8: Mini Research Paper Revisions and Final Meta-cognition
  • Due Block Day Dec 7 and 8: All Make Up Work

Important Deadlines/Reminders: None

AGENDA:

1. Rhetorical Analysis: The Essay

  1. Pre-Reading Steps
  2. Number Paragraphs
  3. Read silently once through
  4. Annotate EVERY paragraph to identify claims, types of evidence, rhetorical devices (every sentence is either a claim or evidence)
  5. Chunk the text (intro, body parts, shifts, conclusion)



Rhetorical Analysis Prompt



Rhetorical analysis is an important process in comprehending an author’s text and in understanding the moves an author makes in his/her writing. In practicing rhetorical analysis, one can also comprehend how to improve her/his own writing and grow as an intellectual.



Directions: Write an essay to analyze a text for the author’s philosophical assumptions, the structure, and the rhetorical strategies. Be sure to briefly summarize the text for context and to introduce the paper’s intent.